Famed Tech Investor Says Yes, I Meant It When I Said Critics Of The Rich Are Like Nazishttp://www.businessinsider.com/tom-perkins-nazi-email-2014-1/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:18:05 -0500Jim Edwardshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e817ca69beddfa02afa2c8Donald Joseph KingsburyTue, 28 Jan 2014 15:49:14 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e817ca69beddfa02afa2c8
Tom Perkins is pure comedy!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e6d68369beddc52d9b1effniggeronwelfareMon, 27 Jan 2014 16:58:27 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e6d68369beddc52d9b1eff
Tom Perkins for president fuck the world !!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e6d3a7eab8ea17359b1efaScott LahtiMon, 27 Jan 2014 16:46:15 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e6d3a7eab8ea17359b1efa
My love letter in a link
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to that noblest of paladins of plutocratic chivalry Mr. Perkins, now destined to be hymned for all time in story and in song wherever the poetic is profaned and tones are deaf; and to all those fearless souls who, with no thought whatever for their own safety or their capacity to meet in altitude the qualifying moral-height markers on even the most Lilliputian of the rides at Disneyland, have with cries of I-am-SPARTACVS-OFF! risen to his defense in the kangaroo court of pub(l)ic opinion that only a web-comment thread, with those of The Wall Street Journal holding pride of place, can be.
In his letter to the editors of The Wall Street Journal, the ineducable - if highly-trainable - Tom Perkins stands revealed for all time as the venture-capitalist version of that cohort of useful idiots from the intellectual class who once did so much to give aid and comfort to actually-existing totalitarians of divers stripes, as depicted in an interview with the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky:
Interviewer: What do you think motivates [Soviet sympathisers]? After all, many are highly intelligent.
Brodsky: No, *this* is the litmus test for one’s intelligence; and, even more important, a litmus test for one’s *ethics?*.
"You progressives deride greed every chance you get", wrote one commenter at The Wall Street Journal, responding from a universe all his own to another's condemnation of Perkins's shameful letter: for nowhere in her short comment did she reveal an affiliation with the progressive tendency in American politics. She merely stated that she found the thesis of the letter by Tom Perkins beyond horrific, a sentiment that, as you scan the thousands of like comments worldwide on this pathetic episode, you will find shared by thinking, feeling people of every imaginable political pedigree who, when the categories involved shift as, Heaven help us all, we move on to stories more anodyne, will happily find themselves once more at wholesome loggerheads as we as a species continue our long march, arm in nucular-tipping-pointy arm, along the sunlit uplands of Progress unto the sweet Promised Land of human extinction in ways that only bitter and implacable conflict can propel.
On second thought, my fellow agents of world revolution and I - say, what's that on your stuffed shirt? - have every reason to salute our presumed nemesis of the hour as the True and Onlie seedbed of our fondest among fond hopes, at long last and after all those regrettable Sino-Soviet mulligans, for Marxian redemption - for what conceivable society, in heaven or on earth or, yea, in the waters under and soon enough over the warming earth, could ever prove more bereft of the invidious markers of *class* than one composed of a Tom Perkins or 315 million?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e6b840eab8ea305901af9dMittymoMon, 27 Jan 2014 14:49:20 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e6b840eab8ea305901af9d
Hitler scapegoated the Jews & blamed them for Germany's woes, & Obama's doing the same to America's rich.
Plus, many think Wall Streeters are Jewish bankers, like the contemned Rothschilds.
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3675560,00.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3675560,00.html</a>
What happened to the Jews in Germany started slow by men like Luther, Kant, Heidegger, & Wagner & then gained momentum under the Nazis.
Had anti-antisemitism been snuffed out early in Germany, perhaps millions of Jews wouldn't have been snuffed out later.
So, take Perkins seriously & don't think these early beginnings are innocuous. Like the nascent anti-antisemitism in Germany, they could be the sparks that later burst into flames.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e69cd96da8118940bafaebpushbuttonchimpMon, 27 Jan 2014 12:52:25 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e69cd96da8118940bafaeb
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e67a7069bedd6632bafaebvvvvvMon, 27 Jan 2014 10:25:36 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e67a7069bedd6632bafaeb
Someone let Goodwin know there is an idiot blaspheming his name!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e67901eab8ea934b01afa6Jerry FreyMon, 27 Jan 2014 10:19:29 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e67901eab8ea934b01afa6
The truth about ‘class war’ in America
Republicans claim, in Orwellian fashion, that Obama’s millionaire tax is ‘class war’. The reality is that the super-rich won the war
<a href="http://napoleonlive.info/did-you-know/facts-about-the-one-percent-2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://napoleonlive.info/did-you-know/facts-about-the-one-percent-2/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e6785569beddde28bafaefGoldMon, 27 Jan 2014 10:16:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e6785569beddde28bafaef
he's not right. The Jews in Germany powerless with virtually no rights. The richest 1% have all the power and nearly half of the nation's wealth. It's the difference between being protested against and being persecuted. Perkin's analogy missed by a country mile. Sad.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e676bc6bb3f7e04201af9dGoldMon, 27 Jan 2014 10:09:48 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e676bc6bb3f7e04201af9d
what Perkins doesn't get is that the 1% have all the power. The Jews in Germany were powerless. You can't "discriminate" against entrenched power. You can only protest. This guy is Marie Antionette. What a clown.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e672a8ecad044e2701afacWhy?Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:52:24 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e672a8ecad044e2701afac
Why are you still there? If you have valuable skills worth more than you are being paid you move on. Sounds like something else - you like the work so much you are willing to be underpaid, or don't really have marketable skills, or some personal circumstance keeping you there - personal choices all. Not the bosses fault...yours.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e656f369beddae52bafafasabrina sMon, 27 Jan 2014 07:54:11 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e656f369beddae52bafafa
Except for the, oh, MINOR detail that the rich are not a powerless minority, they have pretty much all the power.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e609316bb3f7c85682a55dpushbuttonchimpMon, 27 Jan 2014 02:22:25 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e609316bb3f7c85682a55d
Jill,
I'm always one to agree with your points, but on this one, where you imply Income Tax is a good thing, I have to disagree. Income tax has become one of the biggest drivers of class warfare, and the end result of a complete lack of innovation in taxation and generating revenue for the government. Income tax is avoidable by the rich, and the poor, and corporations, and made the burden of the middle class, who cover the debt for everyone.
What I earn is mine, and for me alone to decide how I spend it, not the government that seeks only to redistribute it either directly or indirectly to others who have not earned it.
As much as I hate the 1% the anger I have is not towards their escape of taxes but more that they contrive ways for the rest of us to prevent us from ever getting ahead and us too in becoming rich. That is far more infuriating than them being tax dodges.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5d1cdecad04f3574d153eBeaumuttSun, 26 Jan 2014 22:26:05 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5d1cdecad04f3574d153e
Hey, Perkins, It's way past time for your shower.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5cc9669bedd2a044d1535Quit ComplainingSun, 26 Jan 2014 22:03:50 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5cc9669bedd2a044d1535
You got a great education at your current employers but he isn't paying you market wages. So quit and start your own firm. Quit and go somewhere else. Stop expecting your current boss to make it "fair." Go out and do your own thing.
You're already poor, what's the difference? Seriously, being poor is the best time to start something on your own, you've got nothing to lose. Do it.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5b1136bb3f7a82482a562Yakov SmirnoffSun, 26 Jan 2014 20:06:27 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5b1136bb3f7a82482a562
In Soviet Russia you dont "get it" - it gets you!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5b0dd69bedd7f454d152eYakov SmirnoffSun, 26 Jan 2014 20:05:33 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5b0dd69bedd7f454d152e
In Soviet Russia you dont "get it" - it gets you!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5b0ceeab8eaf60682a55bJay SandalsSun, 26 Jan 2014 20:05:18 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5b0ceeab8eaf60682a55b
Maybe the guy is an H1B worker? He might not have an option to change jobs. If he has been there 5 years and is an H1B then he would have 1 more year to go. Might need a green card to stay. If he left the company the process would start over?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5ab826bb3f74e1882a55brepu8Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:42:42 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5ab826bb3f74e1882a55b
I don't think you get it. The term "rich" is nebulous and can be formed to mean far more than billionaire. In Soviet Russia, there were people that would inform the police that their neighbors had "too much" because they saw them with new clothes or extra food, all assets of simple people far from billionaire status. Envy has no economic requirement.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5a34969beddbb214d1534Alan Carl BrownSun, 26 Jan 2014 19:07:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5a34969beddbb214d1534
Many people who've never been paid for their productivity would agree. But I have been and I don't get paid for being a douche bag. I get paid for building things.
There are people who make money for not being productive. But these are the minority. Someone must produce things. And people want to hire them. There is a marketplace, a competition to hire them.
If you are far away from where such competition is intense, your choices are reduced and so is your compensation. But its probably cheaper to live there too.
But if one is productive, moving to a place where the competition for talent is more intense will likely to higher compensation.
Of course, those who want to pretend that there is no marketplace, geography isn't what's trapping them.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5a31069bedda6264d152eJill KlausenSun, 26 Jan 2014 19:06:40 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5a31069bedda6264d152e
"If their wealth was strictly a matter of their own hard work, the rich would be entitled to everything they have, but it is NOT. Much of their wealth has resulted from carefully crafted laws designed to benefit them at the expense of everyone else. For many of the rich, their most profitable investment has been hiring lobbyists to gain "favorable" treatment on taxes. The worst and most offensive part is their sense of entitlement. I guess F. Scott Fitzgerald was right, the rich really are different."
And Benjamin Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt:
"The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell'd to pay by some Law.
"All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it." ~ Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father
<a href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html</a>
"No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned. Every dollar received should represent a dollar’s worth of service rendered — not gambling in stocks, but service rendered. The really big fortune, the swollen fortune, by the mere fact of its size acquires qualities which differentiate it in kind as well as in degree from what is possessed by men of relatively small means. Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective — a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion, and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate." ~ Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President and Republican
<a href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/new-nationalism-speech/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/new-nationalism-speech/</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5a250eab8ea9a6882a559Sephardic Askanazi Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:03:28 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5a250eab8ea9a6882a559
He refers to Jews as a race. How stupid can he be. As always, wealth is not an indication of intelligence.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5a18369bedd19244d1531Alan Carl BrownSun, 26 Jan 2014 19:00:03 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5a18369bedd19244d1531
Why don't you quit and go to another company that will pay you fair market value for your work?
In which of "the states" is this "electronic manufacturer" located? You get no vacation or sick days?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e59bd3ecad04ab6a4d152eokSun, 26 Jan 2014 18:35:47 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e59bd3ecad04ab6a4d152e
they should be shot, or gas chambered just like what nazis didhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e594e269bedd64044d1530ChagrinedSun, 26 Jan 2014 18:06:10 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e594e269bedd64044d1530
"Wise men speck because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something" - Plato
Angry rich white man whining! It must be so lonely up there with the top one percent!
The 'war' is not on America's one percent, the 'war' is on America's 99 percent and the 99 percent is tired of this war so the 'warring' one percent should be afraid, be very afraid!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e59131ecad047c564d1533SuperSteveSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:50:25 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e59131ecad047c564d1533
I don't think he was calling anyone more successful than him a Nazi.
He was saying that people who start the initial accusations of being a Nazi are actually more Nazi themselves. If that makes sense to you.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58f8e6da811d71611be0dOracularSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:43:26 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58f8e6da811d71611be0d
I've heard similar stories. The truth is that there a lot of very productive people who aren't well compensated, because the system is rigged against them. Unless you're an idiot or a subservient simpleton, you know the really big bucks com from immoral douchebaggery, not productivity.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58e6aecad04f9514d152eOracularSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:38:34 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58e6aecad04f9514d152e
I hear you on "nuts". Me thinks he might have dimentia, he is 82 years old, after all!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58e54eab8ea143c82a55dbahahalolSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:38:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58e54eab8ea143c82a55d
Or just lack of enforcement of existing laws. Take Gates and his illegal monopoly or the GS / JPM boys. The fines are always just a small slap on the wrist and never in parity with the scale of the crime.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58dd7ecad049e4b4d1530joveSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:36:07 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58dd7ecad049e4b4d1530
All the money in the world cannot buy you immortality....nor can it assure that your future generations will not be held "accountable" for your actions in accumulating wealth. And, If you have done nothing wrong, there is nothing to be concerned about.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58c946da811900b11be13bittenSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:30:44 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58c946da811900b11be13
Hey Joe, you apostrophe ve out Nazied yourself, his your is correct....http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58b84ecad0446484d152ebill in denverSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:26:12 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58b84ecad0446484d152e
What details? The guy is working hard and he sees his company becoming more and more profitable. It seems the CEO is the one taking all the profits and not sharing it with the folks who are the ones making him that money. There seems to be a philosophy among the wealthiest that they deserve more and more and more and the folks actually making them the money should either just shut up or quit. This Perkins guy is a loonie.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58b3d69bedd3d6d4d152eZero chanceSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:25:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58b3d69bedd3d6d4d152e
That this is a legitimate department manager of a successful company. i live in a low cost midwestern city and the entry level jobs for anyone with a degree are double that and we don't expect success, we hope for a 50% chance on that salary. The minimum pay of a manager is $65K and I'm shocked they make that little. The receptionist makes over $20K.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58690ecad04113c4d1534BaggerDonSun, 26 Jan 2014 17:05:04 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e58690ecad04113c4d1534
The NAZI's were enabled by the German Industrialists of the day.....in fact, Hitler passed the ENABLING ACT, his attempt to circumvent the Reichstag, before he burnt it down....and who is trying to circumvent the Congress and Constitution today??? Many of the "billionaires" of today, would not still be billionaires had not the FED stole the fair interest money due savers and producers to bailout these billionaires and their crony politicians..... . The billionaires love their privacy when the profits are rolling in, and love to socialize their losses in bad times.... . It is not about religion, it is about the big con.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e583f46da811967111be0dcmonsterSun, 26 Jan 2014 16:53:56 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e583f46da811967111be0d
You mean the working class that calls anyone who's more successful a Nazi?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e582afecad0438354d1530Jungle JimSun, 26 Jan 2014 16:48:31 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e582afecad0438354d1530
If their wealth was strictly a matter of their own hard work, the rich would be entitled to everything they have, but it is NOT. Much of their wealth has resulted from carefully crafted laws designed to benefit them at the expense of everyone else. For many of the rich, their most profitable investment has been hiring lobbyists to gain "favorable" treatment on taxes. The worst and most offensive part is their sense of entitlement. I guess F. Scott Fitzgerald was right, the rich really are different.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57fe0eab8ea641a82a55dVintageVNvetSun, 26 Jan 2014 16:36:32 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57fe0eab8ea641a82a55d
repeat of what i said earlier:::
This perkins person IS the modern version of the Nazi overlords.
Back in the day, the National SOCIALIST Party of Germany, aka Nazis, made hay with the general population of German peasants who were the cannon fodder the overlords needed to be able to wage what they hoped would be a world wide war to establish Nazi hegemony over the world by focusing hatred on a small, hard working minority.
Now the same, with this sort trying to exploit the VERY OBVIOUS economic disparities to extend their hegemonies.
Didn't last long then, although somewhat successful locally. Won't last long now.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57dd269bedd9f4d4d152eGeorge LucasSun, 26 Jan 2014 16:27:46 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57dd269bedd9f4d4d152e
I'm sure he's looking elsewhere for a job. Most people are. Does he have to specifically state that in order to get your approval?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57d116da811dd5d11be0fKMK1Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:24:33 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57d116da811dd5d11be0f
"Plummited", too? I smell a troll. First off, a million dollar house is a shack compared to most technology CEOs.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57be46bb3f7f73582a559KMK1Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:19:32 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57be46bb3f7f73582a559
Sounds like you're starving now. Why not look elsewhere for a job? Seems the devil is in the details with this story somehow.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57b27ecad0490224d1531artful dodgerSun, 26 Jan 2014 16:16:23 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57b27ecad0490224d1531
So what. The man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. If he some views which seem obnoxious to a lot of people, that's his right. I'm tired of how the media is trying to spoon feed everyone on how you should think by its going out of its way to demonize this guy (I wouldn't have even heard about it were it not for the non-stop coverage). It's like the way that all discussions about Hitler must done in a way that depicts him as unambiguously evil, complete with ominous music and all-- otherwise the media becomes scared that some people might view him as a sort of Tony Soprano/Walter White type heroic villain rather than an inhuman monster.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57a7decad0427294d152eScott LahtiSun, 26 Jan 2014 16:13:33 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e57a7decad0427294d152e
The Wall Street Journal goes from strength to strength as it enlists the tonier sort of precedents from the mother country and its owner's other national power-play ground - the fact of, say, the recent turn on its books pages toward reviewers familiar to regular readers of The Times Literary Supplement triggering a succession virtually apostolic on its letters pages in the form of wheezing and pox-addled to-the-life refugees from another deathless monument of classic Anglophile kultur, the "Upper-Class Twit of the Year" sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, can be taken not so much as a side effect of mid-Atlantic cross-pollination as, if the Journal's wing-tipped shareholding readers in the skyboxes of our new master class will forgive me, a dividend.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e577b86bb3f7b62982a55fWhy am I suppose to be surprisedSun, 26 Jan 2014 16:01:44 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e577b86bb3f7b62982a55f
Limbaugh says stupid things all.day and if you ask him he'll say he means it.
So what's the big to do over this jerk doubling down on his brand of stupid.
This guy sure is butthurt.
Looks like all.that money don't bring him much peace of mind.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5768feab8ea430582a559march76bSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:56:47 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5768feab8ea430582a559
The only discrediting remark in Perkins' letter to the WSJ was his reference to the San Francisco Chronicle as a "newspaper."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e575336da811c24511be0bGeorge LucasSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:50:59 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e575336da811c24511be0b
Watch out the grammar Nazis are here too!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e571f66da8118e3e11be0bmt kellerSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:37:10 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e571f66da8118e3e11be0b
Just another of the corporate goons living off the government they've purchased.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
-Benito Mussolinihttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e571df6bb3f7fa2082a55bDuong NguyenSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:36:47 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e571df6bb3f7fa2082a55b
Lol pulling the old Hitler argument out already? Shoot at least on the Internets people have the decency to post a funny picture with their Troll arguments. Pff like this arguement is going to sway anyone but rich people, yes i'm sure they feel "persecuted" like the Jewish peoples during WW2 but from where I'm standing u guys look more like little czars whining about how the peasants just "don't understand the plight of the super rich".. yes unfortunate..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e571686da811473e11be0bmt kellerSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:34:48 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e571686da811473e11be0b
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
― George Orwell, A Collection of Essayshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e570296bb3f73b1b82a559March76bSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:29:29 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e570296bb3f73b1b82a559
The principle inaccuracy in Perkins' letter to the WSJ was to his reference to The San Francisco Chronicle as a newspaper.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e56daceab8eafd6b82a55bDepressionSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:18:52 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e56daceab8eafd6b82a55b
He's right you know ....his anology isnt PC ,but in private conversation it would be acceptable .....
We ARE demonizing the rich in this country ...so what if he built a 150 Million dollar yaht? Does that make him a bad person? It IS his money after all ,he earned it ,he should be allowed to keep it and spend it as he sees fit ...
The same goes for all the other super rich ,since when did greed become a crime ?
If more Americana stopped.crying about how rich OTHERS are and spent more time learning a usefull skill perhaps everyone wouldnt be so poor ....
( disclaimer ,im not really bothered by this assult on the wealthy ,if we as a society want to tax the snot out if them , then thats Fine by me as im not super rich ,I simply believe in calling a spade a spade .)http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e56ae1eab8ea236782a560cbossSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:06:57 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e56ae1eab8ea236782a560
Being Jewish (or any ethnicity) is not a choice, but a hereditary outcome.
Being a greedy exploiter of human beings is a choice, and a character flaw.
How did this douche get so rich being dumbass as well?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e56a8f69bedd2d1e4d1530EmthaphorosSun, 26 Jan 2014 15:05:35 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e56a8f69bedd2d1e4d1530
Wow--so would I. Is there truly a stagnant class of non-superstar techies being used and abused by their employers?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e567c569beddfb0c4d1530Correctamundo +1 +1 +1Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:53:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e567c569beddfb0c4d1530
The problem is that Perkins only reinforces that hatred with his parallel between the distraught working class citizens of San Francisco and a national movement to eradicate an entire ethnic group.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5673e69bedd23154d1530Jim EdwardsSun, 26 Jan 2014 14:51:26 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5673e69bedd23154d1530
Please send me an email. I would love to hear your story in more detail.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e56676ecad04397e4d152eBrentSun, 26 Jan 2014 14:48:06 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e56676ecad04397e4d152e
Just because your in the tech industry doesn't mean your rich. Not everyone in this industry is rich. Like me. I work for an electronic manufacturer in the states. I went to college did everything i was supposed to. Now I'm five years in the industry, our company has tripled profits in three years, i created a technical testing department which i supervise out of nothing. I make 20,000 a year. I have no benefits. zero vacation. zero sick days. I live in low class housing. How can my company's owner afford to build a new $1,000,000 house while his MANAGEMENT lives in poverty?
The man started the company and as it has grown the average pay has plummited. WHat do i do quit and starve and protest?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e563a66da8119b1411be0bGeorge LucasSun, 26 Jan 2014 14:36:06 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e563a66da8119b1411be0b
Godwin's law
"talk about a subject long enough and eventually someone makes a comparison to Nazis"
And usually the person who makes the comparison is the real Nazi.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5639fecad0415724d1534TmacSun, 26 Jan 2014 14:35:59 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5639fecad0415724d1534
These are the @ssclowns we are supposed to worship?
No thankshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5635aecad0426724d1537Dean WormerSun, 26 Jan 2014 14:34:50 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/52e5635aecad0426724d1537
He's nuts. It's not the same anymore. erhaps back in the day it was about capital formation, risk, fueling great innovations. Today it's a virtual Ponzi of options manipulation and public markets that will accept anything on a hint of promise.